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Scott
Foreign.
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Shelby
Hey, you are listening to A Year in the Bible with daily Grace. We're walking through the book of Genesis. I'm Shelby and I'm here with Scott. Scott, Today we're in Genesis 25 through 27 and we see the narrative pivot a little bit here. We're going from following Abraham's story, we'll see his death, and then we begin to follow Isaac's story a little more closely. Can you take us through these chapters?
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Scott
Yeah, this is a transition point in Genesis, like you said. The focus now shifts away from Abraham to Isaac a little bit, that, you know, the son that had been promised to them. Um, you know, Sarah, we didn't talk about this in the episode yesterday, but in chapter 23, which we looked at in the study yesterday, she passed away. And here in Genesis 25, Abraham now passes away. And 23 mentioned this, had this interaction with Abraham purchasing this cave to bury Sarah in, and Abraham is buried in it in this chapter. And I mentioned this cave because we're actually going to see it a few more times in Genesis with people from this family choosing to be buried. But I think the cave is interesting to me because, you know, even though God had promised this land to Abraham's descendants, even though Abraham lived in this land, he was a wanderer. He didn't, he didn't own this land, it wasn't his yet. But he, we do see him take possession of one very small part of it. And so I think what you see in the purchase of this cave is this act of faith on Abraham's part. It's like a down payment. And he purchases it, purchases it in faith that this whole, this will be surrounded by his descendants one day. Like this small plot of land will be, will expand to include all the land. And so he's just trusting that by being buried here, he will dwell among his descendants one day who will inhabit this place.
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Shelby
Yeah, I remember for a long time I had just kind of like skipped over that fact and didn't understand it. And I think it might have been actually the first time I read through the Bible in a year that I really came to understand that. And it's a really cool moment in this story. But I do have a question. What happens to God's covenant with Abraham when he dies? You know, we've talked a lot about that covenant and the importance of it. And now Abraham has passed away. So what happens?
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Scott
So Isaac inherits that. You see that in 26 verses 3 to 5, where God makes the same promises to Isaac that he made to Abraham to bless, to bless him, to give him the land of Canaan, and then to multiply his descendants. And so he reiterates those promises he had made to Abraham so long before. And those promises are important to keep in mind as we talk about what is really the primary focus of these chapters, which is Jacob and Esau, Isaac's sons. And so. Okay, Shelley, I do feel for Esau a little bit. I've got two boys. I've. I've seen our younger son kind of just poke at the older one. You know, I mean, they're twin. Esau and Jacob are twins, but technically Esau's older. Um, so I've seen my youngest, you know, get on my oldest nerves at times. And here we see Jacob trick Esau out of his birthright. Then he steals their father's blessing. On the other hand, though, Esau should have known better. And so this is where it's important to remember those promises. Cuz as the oldest, Esau stood to inherit a lot from his father, Isaac, he stood to inherit those promises. And it would have been expected that just as God passed those promises from Abraham to Isaac, Isaac would have passed them on to Esau. But the text is really, really critical of Esau in these chapters. And so we read in chapter 25, he was willing to exchange his birthright just for a bowl of stew. And, you know, his status as a firstborn that came with that birthright. And this is really in contrast to Abraham, who, who just constantly lived with an eye to the future. Esau is concerned with what's in front of him. He's like, I'm hungry. What good is a birthright? And all the future stuff that comes with that. I'm hungry now. And we're told in chapter 25 that he despised his birthright. And then Hebrews 12 will also call him immoral and irreverent. But, you know, Jacob doesn't come off looking much better in these chapters. Maybe worse, he's a deceiver. Yet God told his mother Rebecca, that the older Esau would end up serving the younger Jacob which is an interesting comment. And we see glimpses here of Jacob's future prominence over Esau as he gets the birthright, he gets the blessing. But first he's got to deal with this older brother who by the end of these chapters wants him dead. And we're going to talk about that a little bit more tomorrow.
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Shelby
What a cliffhanger to end on.
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Scott
Join us again.
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Shelby
Yeah, we'll be talking about that more tomorrow. But you know my takeaway, there's a lot of messy things happening in these chapters, right? I think my takeaway is that I have seen God working throughout messy situations so far in Genesis in so many ways. And so I'm expectant of that as we keep reading and to see how he'll continue to do that. Thanks for explaining all of that, Scott. We're officially halfway through the book. Yeah, it's so exciting. We'll be back tomorrow to talk through more.
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